Help Please

**Balestar** · 08-19-2008 11:50 AM

I've been lucid dreaming for almost as long as I can remember;

How I do it is ... "keeping a strong grip on reality"

Basically I used to have a fair amount of nightmares when I was a kid but then i stopped them by myself just by remembering where I was (in bed obviously) ... so I'd find myself falling into a pit and be thinking to myself
"wow this is a fun one" (i can distinctly remember that one)

If you like superheroes and things like that try imagining yourself having some sort of power whenever you remember to (even when awake).

That sounds insane I know; but whenever I'm dreaming I can move stuff with my mind/shoot webs/fly even when its not a full lucid dream because I want to even when I'm awake.

**ninja9578** · 08-19-2008 02:46 PM

As everyone else said, start slow. Use passive dream control for a while until you have practice keeping yourself in the dream. Controlling the dream too much can cause you to wake up.

**Shaelyn** · 08-19-2008 03:21 PM

I tried to become lucid last night which usually isen't hard for me when it happens on accident. I failed at this ... but had many fragmented, unclear dreams. Also something that has never happened with me before since I am a very deep sleeper ... I awoke after each dream. I then tried to recall pieces of each one and fell back to sleep to try again. Then last night when I climbed into bed I noticed I forgot to set my alarm clock to 9 which is when I wanted to wake up but I was too tired by that time to go set it so I just assumed my stepdad would wake me. Then this morning I awoke a nine exactly .... maybe just a coincedence but I have heard of people who can control thier minds enough to wake up at whatever time they need. Does this mean maybe that I have more control than I think I do?

**Balestar** · 08-19-2008 05:49 PM

If you have a regular sleeping pattern or atleast one which is fairly predominant then your body will be used to waking up at the time your alarm goes off, so it might just have been that really.

But who am I to say whether you did or didn't?

Just a possibility.

**Shaelyn** · 08-19-2008 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by Balestar

If you have a regular sleeping pattern or atleast one which is fairly predominant then your body will be used to waking up at the time your alarm goes off, so it might just have been that really.

But who am I to say whether you did or didn't?

Just a possibility.

I would have thought the same thing but the fact is ... i usually sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning and wake at 2 or 3 the next afternoon. Thats why I thought this nine o clock thing was a little unusual.

**Balestar** · 08-20-2008 01:57 PM

Could have been any number of things really; It may well have been you wanting to wake up at that time (I know I've done that a few times) but it could also have been general house noise/light coming through a window. I doubt you'll ever know.

Incidentally; Last night I got something about being at a lake and freaking everyone out by deciding to walk on water

, then I went below (making myself able to breath for some strange reason, even though I knew i was dreaming)

**Shaelyn** · 08-20-2008 05:25 PM

Last night I had a number of fragmented unclear dreams. I became lucid a few times but immediatly awoke. I tried the spinning but that failed. In one dream I used the nose reality check on a false awakening but became distracted and lost lucidity. I'm hoping that this shows progress even if it is small. Today was my first Dream Journal Entry I am at least happy to say I induced lucidity even for a small amount of time.